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asked him and get her to sign off on the
proposals.
    “She’s going to talk with us tomorrow
night at the ball. You’d better be nice to her or Mom will hear about how you
made her cry.” Curtis started to say something nasty to his brother, but was
stopped when he raised his hand. “I mean it, Curtis. I like this girl and I won’t
have you messing it up for me.”
    And that, as they say, was that. He
nodded once and grabbed up his jacket. He stared at Daniel for several seconds
before he put out his hand. “Congratulations. I wish you all the best.” Like
hell , he thought. But he wouldn’t do anything, not all the things he’d been
imagining doing with her, to her since she’d come across the restaurant in that
little skirt and oh so lovely blouse. No, Curtis would never encroach on his
brother’s women. No matter how much he wanted to.
    His phone was ringing when he entered
his office. He nearly didn’t answer it, but picked it up anyway. Harriet was
already gone and, apparently, had forgotten to put the calls to the service
again. Curtis needed someone to replace her, but was too sure that in her
family she was the only one working and it wouldn’t go well for them.
    “I thought I’d get…I need to make an
appointment with you. I have tomorrow open and then Monday. After that I have
other things I have to do.”
    Curtis closed his eyes to Kylie’s voice.
He didn’t need this. “I turned the whole thing over to Daniel. He’s the one you’ll
be meeting with from now on.” He opened the calendar on the shared drive that
they all added to. “He can meet with you Monday morning at eight.” He didn’t
point out that he was busy after ten and that she needed to be on time for this
one. She was no longer his problem. He waited for her to answer with this
fingers curved over the keys.
    “All right. I have everything in my
possession, including the file.”
    He keyed in the time and with whom,
hoping she’d just hang up.
    “Why?”
    He stopped typing and waited for more.
When nothing was forthcoming he leaned back in his chair after saving the
entry. He knew what she was asking him, but didn’t want to deal with it. Or why
he’d done it. “Because I have other commitments that have cropped up. I have a
large firm I’m purchasing in a few days that needs my utmost—”
    “That’s not what I meant and you damn
well know it. Why did you kiss me? Especially being so angry?”
    She had claws. He liked that. She’d need
them if Daniel and she were to become a couple. Daniel hadn’t been a one woman
man since he’d been a kid. He frowned when he still didn’t have an answer.
    “I won’t allow it to happen again.” He
sat up in his chair, suddenly too tired to cope with her. “If you have any more
questions please refer them to Daniel. He’ll work with you from now on.” He put
the phone in the cradle then stood. He sat back down, ignored the ringing phone,
and pressed another button. After putting the phones to go to the service he
left. It was going to be a long night.

Chapter 3
     
    Kylie called her dad. He wouldn’t help
her, she knew. One, because she wasn’t going to tell him why she didn’t want to
go tonight. And secondly, she couldn’t go tonight no matter what. If she had to
see even one of the Hunter men she might not be able to keep from killing them.
    She caught her fingers on her lips
again. Damn it. The man could kiss, but she’d not had the time to enjoy it more
when he suddenly ripped—
    Kylie stopped that train of thought. It
was bad enough that she’d dreamed of the bastard all night, and now this. When
her dad answered she nearly cried.
    “If you’re calling again to tell me you’re
too sick to go then I’m coming over there and beating your butt. I should have
done it more when you were a kid, but now…well, I won’t let you bail on your
old man now.” She sat down hard on her bed. “And you’d better be on time. No
more ‘just one more thing.’ You know